Photos: World’s wackiest Guinness records

Garry Stretch, who holds the Guinness World Record for having the stretchiest skin performs before he judges the auditions for the Circus of Horrors at Fairfield Halls on October 7, 2005 in London, England. Hundreds of people applied for a job in the circus after advertisements were placed in many of London’s job centres.

Jim Mouth uses a fan to blow smoke from 155 cigarettes as he breaks “The Guinness Book of World Records” record November 18, 1993 for smoking the most cigarettes at the same time.

Indian man and Guinness World Record holder C. Manoharan popularly known as Snake Manu practices for a new record by putting a live snake up his nose and out through his mouth in Madras, September 2, 2004. Snake Manu currently holds a record for swallowing 200 earthworms in 30 seconds. He now plans to insert a live cobra up his nose and out through his mouth.

Women in bikinis ride an escalator at the Fashion Show mall on the Las Vegas Strip as they help the Las Vegas Convention & Visitors Authority earn a Guinness World Record for staging the world’s largest bikini parade with 281 participants May 14, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Women in bikinis march across the Las Vegas Strip as they help the Las Vegas Convention & Visitors Authority earn a Guinness World Record for staging the world’s largest bikini parade with 281 participants May 14, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Fajardo Aceves Jesus Manuel, from Mexico, know as the “wolfman” in the Guinness World of Records, arrives in Taipei 21 April for a visit during a six-month tour. Jesus Manuel, 24, whose hairy condition is a result of hiper tricosis, a disease causing an overabundance of hair, says he inherited the condition from his great-grandmother. Despite looking different, he insists he lives a normal live like everyone else.

People pose in front of the Levi’s Big Jeans, 30 m height, listed in the Guinness World Records as largest blue jeans in the world, on display at the Han riverside on May 1, 2005 in Seoul, South Korea.

Briton Isobel Varley, 69, the world’s eldest tattooed woman according to the Guinness Book of Records, poses at a hotel in Buenos Aires, July 7, 2005. Varley arrived in Argentina to take part this weekend in the jury of the 1st International Tattoo Convention.

Fans wear wrestling masks given away as a promotion as they set a Guinness World Record for “largest gathering of people wearing costume masks” during the game between the Chicago White Sox and the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim on May 10, 2011 at Angel Stadium in Anaheim, California.

Workers and guests at the World’s Finest Chocolate company look at a 12,190 pound chocolate bar they created to set a new Guinness World Record September 13, 2011 in Chicago, Illinois. The bar, which stands nearly 3 feet high and measures 21 feet long, beat the previous record chocolate bar by more than a ton.

Costas Dasios (R), a restaurant owner in the western Greek port of Patras with the help of his employees makes the world’s largest kebab, October 24, 2005 for the Guinness Book of Records. Dasios early on Monday began roasting a pork kebab weighing around 1,850 kilograms (4,079 pounds) on a 1.73-metre steel skewer, fuelled by a two-ton natural gas tank. Approximately 150 kilos of spices and 100 kilos of salt went into adding taste to the kebab, which is known as ‘gyros’ in Greece. The giant kebab should be ready late evening and the city’s poor will be the first to get a taste.

Television reporter for G4 Sarah Underwood and fellow members of the news media wait to conduct interviews after joining over 1,580 costumed superheroes to break the Guinness World Record for the largest gathering of superheroes on October 2, 2010 in Los Angeles, California. The event was organized by DreamWorks Animation for the upcoming film, “Megamind,” to break the Guinness World Record for largest gathering of costumed superheroes.

Melburnians dressed as superheroes participate in a Guinness World Record attempt for the most number of people dressed in superhero costume at Federation Square on May 29, 2010 in Melbourne, Australia. The event was organized to mark the 75th anniversary of DC Comics.

Elaine Davidson the most pierced woman attends the Guinness World Records — 50th Anniversary Party at the Royal Opera House on November 16, 2004 in London.

Members of the Radio City Rockettes perform their trademark high kicks outside the Guinness World of Records Museum on Hollywood Boulevard 27 October 1999 in Hollywood, Ca. The dance troupe, along with 600 high school students who were made “honorary Rockettes”, set a world record for longest kick line.

Worlds most pierced woman Elaine Davidson poses for photographers at the photocall for the 100 millionth copy of the Guinness World Records in the Tate Modern on November 11, 2003 in London.

Chefs attempt to beat the world record in barbecuing steaks in the southern German town of Bubach-Calmesweiler on August 9, 2008. The chefs grilled 1235 steaks on the 15 square metre large grill and made their way in to the Guinness World Records.

Men from the traditional Alkmaar Cheese weighing house celebrate their record 567 kilogram Dutch cheese April 27, 2002 that entered the Guinness Book of Records in Alkmaar, Netherlands. Over 5,000 litres of milk was used to produce the gigantic cheese. The record was a feat because the cheese was made according to the “Beemster” recipe, which is a soft kind of cheese, generating the risk that the cheese would rip during the weighing process.

Brides attend the Twilight Breaking Dawn Part 1 — Guinness World Record attempt to set the Guinness World Record for the longest chain of brides in one location at HMV, Oxford Street on March 11, 2012 in London, England.

American Ashrita Furman juggles balls underwater while a nurse shark swims by at Aquaria KLCC in downtown Kuala Lumpur, 12 January 2006, in an attempt to break the Guinness World Record for juggling underwater continuously. Furman failed to break his world record time of 48 minutes 36 seconds, clocking instead a time of 37 minutes 45 seconds.

Patesh Talukdar, a 25-year-old from Assam state, pierces his face with 23 needles during an attempt to make it into the annals of the Guinness Book of World Records November 11, 2002 in Guwahati. Talukdar has already made it into the Limca book of records with his bizarre feat of consuming bulbs and bricks.

Atmosphere as Ninety Nine Restaurants in Billerica, Massachusetts set a new world record by creating the Guinness World Records World’s Largest Nachos, weighing in at 3,999 lbs. on October 1, 2011 in Billerica, Massachusetts.

Cirque du Soleil artists and employees, including Eric Newton (R) from the show “Criss Angel Believe,” participate in a Guinness World Record stilt walking attempt to mark Cirque du Soleil’s 25th anniversary June 16, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. There were 1,926 Cirque artists and employees expected to participate at the same time in Orlando, Florida, Fortaleza, Brazil, Macau, China, Moscow, Montreal and Las Vegas in walking on stilts for at least 300 meters in less than 15 minutes to break the record.

X Games freestyle motocross legend Mike “The Godfather” Metzger sets a Guinness World Record with a 125-foot long motorcycle jump that included a backflip over a fountain at Caesars Palace May 4, 2006 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The fountains at Caesars were made famous by the legendary motorcycle jump attempted in 1968 by daredevil Evel Knievel.

Lebanese farmer Khalil Semhat holds a giant potato in the southern Lebanese city of Tyre on December 6, 2008. The farmer couldn’t believe his peeled eyes when he discovered he had grown a massive potato weighing 11.3 kilos (24.9 pounds), he said, adding that he now hopes to enter the Guinness World Records book.

Mexicans take part in the “I do dance Thriller” event which attempts to break the Guinness World Record for the biggest mass “Thriller” dance, in Mexico City, on August 29, 2009. Up to 15,000 people were expected to take part in a potentially record breaking mass performance of Michael Jackson’s famed “Thriller” dance on the day he would have turned 51.

Aerial view of the world’s largest swimming pool at a seaside resort in Algarrobo, 95 km west from Santiago, 28 January, 2008. Acknowledged by the Guinness World Records, the lagoon measures 1,013 metres (3,323 ft)) in length, covers an area of eight hectares (20 acres), contains 250,000 cubic meters of water and is navigable in small boats.

Robert Estrada and others manoeuvre a tortilla into place October 8, 2000 as they make an attempt to set the Guinness World Record for the world’s largest three-layered enchilada in Las Cruces, New Mexico. The enchilada measured about 10 feet in diameter and weighed more than 800 pounds. It took about three hours to make. They used 750 lbs. of stone ground corn for the three tortillas, 175 gallons of vegetable oil, 75 gallons of red chili sauce, 175 pounds of grated cheese and 50 lbs. of chopped onion. It needs to be reviewed by Guinness World Record before it can get registered as the worlds largest.

The Guinness World Record Champion of Hula Hoops, Kareena Oates from Australia, performs her hula-hoops skills at a local shopping mall, in Hong Kong, December 22, 2006. Oates manipulates about 70 hula-hoops around her body at one time.

Residents of Sydney pose on the steps to the Sydney Opera House as they attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the largest swimwear parade on November 12, 2009. The attempt held as a fundraiser for the Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience and run by swimwear company Budgy Smuggler, fell short of the current record of 287 participants set recently in South Africa.

Thumbelina, billed as the Worlds Smallest Horse by the Guinness Book of World Records, stands back stage with owner Michael Goessling (R) at the Big Apple Circus where she is making a brief appearance November 30, 2006 in New York City. Thumbelina, who weighs just 58 pounds and stands at 17.5 inches tall, is officially described as a dwarf horse. She is making a brief appearance at the circus before heading back to a farm in New York state.

A cake shop workers put the finishing touches on an 8.7-ton ice cream cake in Beijing January 16, 2006, which took the workers 20 days to make. Officials from the Guinness World Records confirmed this is the biggest ice cream cake in the world, beating the previous one made in Germany.

Joel Waul, 27, poses for a photograph with the 8,200 pound rubber band ball that he created in the driveway of his home August 14, 2008 in Lauderhill, Florida. Once he is finished, Mr. Waul plans on submitting the ball to the Guinness World Records to try to break the record of the current largest rubber band ball in the record book. Waul’s ball already is made up of more than 300,000 bands of different sizes and he plans on adding 2,000 more pounds once the material is delivered to his home.

The world’s fastest “head spinner”, Aichi Ono, aged 18 from Japan, tries out his skill against a ballet dancer (R) at a shopping mall in Hong Kong, 27 December 2007. One, who set the world record for 101 head spins in one minute with the Guinness World Records in Beijing, will attempt to surpass this on New Year’s Eve with 130 spins in one minute, which will officiate the opening of a massive street party in the busy shopping district of Causeway Bay.

Jackie Bibby a.k.a. “The Texas Snakeman” holds in his mouth ten 2 ft 6-inch-long western diamondback rattlesnakes for 12.5 seconds without any assistance at the CW11 morning show on November 9, 2006 to set a new Guinness World Record for Most Live Rattlesnakes Held In Mouth. The event was part of the Guinness World Records Day, where people from all over the globe people are joining together to attempt amazing records.